Browsing Month November, 2007
1000th Rare Whale Shark Found
By Scuba Herald at November 26, 2007 | 6:32 am | 0 Comment
The 1000th specimen of the world's largest and most cryptic fish, the whale shark, has been identified thanks to global efforts by hundreds of 'citizen scientists' and eco-tourists. ECOCEAN, the group behind a unique, award-winning* conservation effort to save the world's threatened whale sharks, today announced the identification of the 1000th identified whale shark in more...
How to Kill a Novice Diver
By Scuba Herald at November 24, 2007 | 4:29 am | 0 Comment
THE coronial inquest into the death of honeymooning scuba diver Tina Watson was told yesterday it would be "very easy" to kill an inexperienced diver underwater. Barrister Damien Atkinson, representing dive operator Mike Ball Expeditions, posed the scenario in cross-examining dive instructor Wade Singleton. Mr Singleton, now an ambulance paramedic, was the trip more...
Mystery of the headless diver resurfaces again
By Scuba Herald at November 17, 2007 | 4:20 am | 0 Comment
Lionel "Buster" Crabb, the ex-Navy diver who slipped into the waters off Portsmouth 51 Aprils ago and was never seen alive again, resurfaced yesterday with the usual froth of hot air. Known to have been poking about the hull of the Russian warship Ordzhonikidze that brought Soviet President Nikita Krushchev to Britain, his body was found 14 months later minus its head. more...
Scuba Killer waits Extradition order
By Scuba Herald at November 16, 2007 | 4:17 am | 0 Comment
A Rhode Island dive shop owner is facing extradition to the British Virgin Islands, where he is accused of killing his wife during a scuba diving trip in 1999. more stories like this US marshals arrested David Swain yesterday at his business in Jamestown, then brought him handcuffed and shackled into federal court in Providence for a hearing before Magistrate Judge more...
Scuba Diving in Dahab
By Scuba Herald at November 14, 2007 | 2:31 am | 0 Comment
A land of magnificent World Heritage sites and a thousand tourist clichés, Egypt was enticing visitors for millennia before Thomas Cook first steamed up the Nile. It was in Egypt that the Holy Family sheltered and Mark Antony flirted. Napoleon stopped long enough to pilfer a few obelisks, and the British stayed around to get the train system running and furnish every more...
First Dive Trip ends in Explosion
By Scuba Herald at November 13, 2007 | 4:25 am | 0 Comment
When Battle Ground's Mike and Brenda Dobbs booked a two-week vacation to go scuba diving in the waters around Belize, they expected to be amazed by the underwater views. It turned out the most shocking thing they saw was above the waterline. Just three days into the trip, the Dobbses were among 22 passengers and crew forced to abandon a 48-foot dive boat after its more...
Scientists living underwater
By Scuba Herald at November 12, 2007 | 6:26 am | 0 Comment
Students, faculty and staff who are interested in learning more about the health of marine ecosystems--particularly coral reefs--and those who want to learn about how scientists conduct research while living underwater will soon have a unique opportunity. Art Trembanis, UD assistant professor of geological science, is hosting a live question-and-answer session with more...
